Evaporation residue cross section in the 37Cl+68Zn fusion reaction near the Coulomb barrier

Background: The measured subbarrier fusion cross sections in heavy-ion reactions are found to be significantly large as compared with those expected from the one-dimensional barrier penetration model (1d-BPM). Although attempts have been made to comprehend the enhancement in terms of different intrinsic degrees of freedom of the colliding nuclei, a clear understanding of the same is yet to come. Purpose: The objectives of this study is to understand the interplay of the channel coupling effect on fusion excitation function and explore the decay dynamics of the excited compound nucleus in the sub-and-near barrier region. Method: Fusion excitation function has been measured at energies from 7% below to 38% above the Bass barrier using a recoil mass spectrometer. Furthermore, cross sections of the different evaporation residues, such as 98, 99, 100, and 101 u, have been extracted. Results: The observed enhancement in the subbarrier fusion cross sections over the 1d-BPM predictions has been explained by considering the low-lying inelastic excitations among the interacting partners using ccfull code and by the barrier modification using the dynamical cluster-decay model (DCM). The cross sections of individual residual mass fractions (98, 99, 100, and 101 u) have been compared with the Hauser-Feshbach model. Conclusion: Coupled-channel calculations and DCM have successfully explained the total fusion cross sections data. The measured total fusion cross section sigma(fus) was found to be approximately equal to the sum of various residual mass fractions (Sigma sigma(ER)) at energies above the Bass barrier. One-dimensional barrier height and radius parameters extracted from the measured data are in good agreement with the Bass model and DCM parameters.